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Article: Famed Scots end up fifth in world bagpipers contest
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- The Hindustan Times
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- August 13, 2007
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Edinburgh, Aug. 13 -- Scottish pipe bands have been beaten at home at their own game.
For the first time since the turn of the millennium, no Scots band has made it into the top three of the World Pipe Band Championships.
In first place were the Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band from Northern Ireland, who came out top in both the March, Strathspey and Reel and the Medley sections of the contest.
Second place in the coveted competition went to the Simon Fraser University band from Vancouver in British Columbia. Another Canadian pipe band, the Scottish Lion 78th Fraser Highlanders, came in third.
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